Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, and Nancy Alexander, Director of the Global Economic Governance Program at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America, discuss “The Scorecard on Development, 1960–2016” and the latest global development trends and their impact on poverty and economic progress throughout the world. Deborah James, CEPR's Director of International Programs, moderates.

CEPR’s latest “Scorecard on Development” looks at data for 191 countries on economic growth and social indicators over the last fifty-six years to consider how most of the world’s countries have emerged from the long period of reduced economic and social progress that characterized the last two decades of the twentieth century. The panelists will discuss possible reasons for the 21st century rebound, its potential sustainability, and implications for economic policy.

Transcript: http://cepr.net/publications/briefings/testimony/the-scorecard-on-development-1960-2016-china-and-the-global-economic-rebound

More event materials here: http://cepr.net/events-archive/the-scorecard-on-development-1960-2016-21st-century-progress-in-developing-countries-and-the-importance-of-china

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